I am just wondering how other pumpers sleep with their pumps. Do you clip it onto your shorts or pants? Do you use an elastic belt pouch? Also do you notice it or sleep right on top of it?

Me, sometimes I clip it onto my shorts other times I will stick it into an elastic belt pouch that I got from the Medtronic Minimed store. I used to notice it but now I often find myself sleeping right on top of it. I have yet to kink the tubing and all seems well.

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I usually stick it under my pillow or lay or lay it right beside me. I sometimes wake up laying on it but it doesnt bug me. Other times im so tired that i forget to unclip it but that doesnt even bother me. I just have to make sure that my bedroom door is closed all the way cause if its not my cat will chew up the tubing and i will wake up being 500

When I had my old pump I used to just leave it free not clipped to anything, and would wake up sleeping on top of it with the tubing wound all around me. It got kind of annoying, but the clip was really bulky so I didn't like wearing it (this was a Cozmo).

Since I've gotten my Animas with its much slimmer clip, I clip it to my PJs near my stomach, because that's one part of my body I don't really sleep on. It works really well and I never wake up sleeping on it or tangled in the tubing.

Been on the pump a few days now and sleeping with it was concern I had. I use the skinny lock on clip that came with my pump, and hook it to my shorts. The first night I was a bit restless but I did ok. Next night i did the same thing but locked the keypad and went right to sleep. I dont even know it is there. I never get woken up by it.
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Chuck

Good deal Chuck :) A lot of what I was concerned about before pumping turned out to be no big deal too ;)

After 24 years pumping it's my constant companion. I just put it beside me in bed and go to sleep. I sleap mainly on my back never hardly move so it never wraps the tubing around me.

I use the short tubing and clip the pump to my pj waistband. As I turn, I move it side to front to side. I never sleep on it. It doesn't bother me to move it on the waistband, though that did fray and wear out one waistband!

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